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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01

A number of gentlemen-about 500
living in Washington City recently con-
spired to evade the Sunday law. Imme-
diately after "the first dry Sunday" they
organized club, and selected as their
place of meeting the dining-room of an
establishment in which liquors are sold,
a caterer being selected from among the
employees of the house. The matter was
brought to the attention of the Police
Court and the evidence showed that Ii
Quors had been furnished freely on Sun
days to members of the club. The judge
took the view that it was an attempt to
evade the law, and imposed a fine of 800
on the caterer. The opinion Of the judge
is good, but his sentence is feeble. He is
mighty in word, but weak in deed. He
should have fined the members of the
club as conspirators against the law, and
the caterer should have been punished
more severely. The conspiracy of intelli-
gent men to break the laws of the coun-
try is the worst form of crime, in that it
evinces deliberation and deep design.
Henry Ward Beecher's family physi-
clan. who writes fine article on his pa
TENTS "personality" for the North Imer-
ican ReUiew, says that Beecher's memo
ry in some respects was phenomenally
deficient. Phrases, sentences, isolated
terms, dates, items, were absolutely for
gotten as soon as heard. The only thing
Of this sort that he could recall was the
list of Latin propositions that govern the
ablative case. Not couplet of any hymn
though sung in his ear and by his tongue
for lifetime, not passage of scripture,
not a scrap from the most celebrated au-
thcrs, could he quote with even a proba-
bility of accuracy. Doubtless this was al
least one of the reasons for his most won.
derful versatility of expression. One
may read his sermons and prayers, and
though his ideas may be and are repeated
they are always clothed afresh; not sci
phrases, no quotations are to be found.
LADY Wilde, mother of Oscar Wilde
and wife of Sir William Wilde, who j.
known all over Ireland as "Speranza,
the name over which she wrote revolu-
tionary poems during the Young IRELAND
rebellion in 1S4S, is in absolute want il
London. For six years she has not re
ceived penny of rent, owing to the lant
war, yet she would not consent to sin
| gle eviction on her estate.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01
COM MON S.
The Lesson of the Trees.
BY SUSAN COOLIDGE.

praised the pine-tree on the hill
Because so valiantlyit grows,
And keeps its green, and does not quail
Before the angry winter gale,
Before the shifting Of the SHOWS.
The pine-tree bowed its stately head
1t knew its worth, and was content;
But from the larch- tree and the oak
Methought complaining voices spoke,
Reproachful eyes on me were bent.
"We too are brave" they seemed to say;
ut is not cowardice or fear
Which makes US drop our Shelterlng wells
And bear our branches to the gales,
When the dread winter draws anear.
"We but obey the inner law
Which every tree. and every flower,
And every humblest herb obeys;-
The law which Standeth sure always,
And is the worlds prevailing power.
"The pine-tree yields obedience meet
In holding fast his vesturc SO,
AS we by yielding up our green,
TO be renewed with brighter sheen
Than ever his tough needles know.
each hears the voice and the command.
And each, In his own several way,
Renders the rlghtful homage DUE
The homage of obedience: you,
Who preach to US, do you obey?"
So I, who praised the strong green pine,
Now praised the bare trees OF the wood;
For each in turn, as in mine,
Is led and taught by law Divine,
And in obedience finds best good.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01
A Practical Religion.

We want religion that softens the
step and tunes the voice to melody
and checks the impatient exclamation
and harsh rebuke; religion that is
polite, courteous to interiors, and con-
siderate to friends; religion that goes
into the family and keeps the husband
from being cross when the dinner is
late, and keeps the wife from fretting
whe N the husband tracks the newly
washed floor with his muddy boots,
and makes the husband mindful OF
the scraper and the door-mat; keeps
the mother patient when the baby is
fretful, and amuses the children as
we'll as instructs them cares for the
servant besides paying them prompt
ly; projects the honeymoon into the
harvest-m0on, and makes the hapry
home like the Eastern fig-tree, bear
ing in its bosom at once the beauty OF
its tender blossoms, and the glory of
the ripened fruit.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01
ScOHCrS.

Only ill-trained youths, the ignorant,
and the wilful unbeliever will scof at
Christianity, especially in the presence OF
those who profess to accept it as the guide
of their lives. The ill-trained youth is
ordinarily filled with egotism, scoffing
very often for the reason that to walk in
the "old paths," would argue him too
like to other men-he will not claim suf-
ficient interest at the hands of anxious
friends unless he affects the unbelief he
is too shallow to more than half compre-
hend. Doubts that restrain one from as
suming obligations to live honestly, con-
scientiously, and. if need be, self-dcny-
ingly, are doubts born of an evil heart
rather than of an unbelieving head.
Of the man who is truly ignorant OF
the high claims of christianity, who has
never known anything better than a per-
functory profession of it by those about
him-for this man to be scoffer is some
thing we can but expect. He sins against
the smallest degree of light, knows little
or nothing at all of real christianity, and
we can scarcely feel wonder that he SCOTS
at obviously pretentious professions.
The wilfully unbelieving man, he who
refuses to see the beauty of lives which
are governed by the high principles OF
Christianity, who detiantly closes his ears
to every appeal to his better nature; this
man cannot fail to be scoffer at the
truths he ignores get fears. That dread
cloud, the end of life, gives warning of
certainly coming storm, yet, fearing and
hating the thought, the man madly re-
fuses to attend, and SCOTS when he should
pray.
Too often when some bad act is report
ed these scoffers will say, "and that is oul
Christian friend Y. ! thought I knew
him." This remark made in the hearing
of those who are Christians is an insult
to their profession, an insult deserving O.
sharp and immediate rebuke-a reques
that the speaker shall repeat the words
only in the hearing of those who have q:
little respect for religion as he himself
These scoliers, the young, the Ignorant
and the wilful unbeliever, need sharI
treatment-a Sam Jones to prepare tht
way for the great Healer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01
The Supreme Court.
Herald and Ne,pS.

The plan of making up the Supreme
Court of the State and increasing it sug.
gested by the Anderson IntelIigencer and
published in this paper meets our appro'
val, and is the same in effect as the idea
we had in mind some time ago and sug'
gested in this paper few issues back.
We do not agree exactly with the
htelHgcncer. but the general idea is q
good one and we hope to see action taken
in the way suggested by the proper au'
thorities. We think the Court of Errors
suggested, and consisting of all the cir.
cult Judges good plan, only we think il
should meet oftener than once in two
wears say once in every year. We think
it should meet this often for the benefit o.
litigants, so that their cases would not be
always in court.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01
Preserving a Stair Carpet.

A quaint lesson in economy was
given by an English woman of wealth
and position to an American friend.
1t related to the method of preserving
q stair carpet. TO maintain the ele-
CANT carpet in its entirety as long as
possible the owner said that she and
the lord of the mansion had agreed to
traverse certain routes on the stair car
pet, the one to keep always to the right
in going up and down, and the other
to walk only upon the left hand side of
the carpet. 1t was expected that COM
pany would keep exclusively to the
centre of the stairway, and that as q
result of the arrangement the stair
carpet would grow old with equal ra-
pidity in all its parts.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01
Two Little Girls.

"Oh, dear, so tired of doing things.
"When come down in the morn
ing, mamma says: Have you brushed
your teeth, dear?' And Aunt Annie
says: Let me look at your nails, dear
And Grandma says: L hope you
haven't forgotten to learn your text
"When I'm at school the teacher is
always telling me to. do things. 1t is
Away: sit up straight Hold your
pen So or something. And when
Pm taking a music lesson professor
keeps on saying: 'Ze wrist fexeeble--
count, one, two, three-oui Oui-zat is
veil DONE 7 wish I didn't have to
practice, and I wish I didn't have to
study.
"There's little girl out in the street.
She goes by almost every day Wheel
ing that little old baby wagon. L
guess the baby is her little sister; Dear
me, 7 wish / was that little glri. ia
like to have nothing to do but wheel
baby wagon and go as slow as l like
and have nobody to say, Hurry and
get to your practicing, DEAR
II don't believe she has to dress for
dinner every day, and that somebody
looks to see if her hair is just right.
And she don't have to be careful and
keep her ruilies nice, for she hasn't got
any ruffies. She just wears an old
dress, and 7 don't believe anybody
cares if it gets dirty. And she don't
have to wear shoes and stockings.
Once when I was at a picnic l had
my shoes and stockings off when we
wanted to play in some water. And
it's lovely to go barefooted.
ayes, indeed, 1 wish could be that
little girl.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01

"HoLD FAST THE FORM OF SOUND
WoRDs.n- very worthy conscien-
tious Friend of New York Meeting
and Minister of the Society, former
ly did not feel easy in making use OF
the word "inclement," as applicable
to the weather, or in hearing it Sc
used, and he had his reasons therefor.
Tt is derived from the Latin word In
-lnclementis-the literal
meaning of which is, ungentle, un-
kind, merciless, pitiless. Should this
he anplied to what cometh from the
Lords hand, who is full of tender love
and compassion "Who hath meas.
ured the waters in the hollow of his
hand.n There are those now who
have the same scruples and think the
word not comely as so applied. At
tention has been directed by seeing it
used in account of Philadelphia Year
ly Meeting.
Negligence is one of the worst forms
of Christian delinquency. Many per
sons who could not be persuaded to do
a bad thing will neglect to do good
ones that wait for them, and thus let
the evil ones have their way. They are
at ease in Zion. Nothing stirs them to
systematic and sustained effort.
CoRNs.-Soft corns can be cured by
this corn-salve: Boil tobacco down to
an extract, then mix with it a quanti-
ty of white pitch pine, and apply it to
the corn, renewing it once q week un-
til the corn disappears.
Oilcloths should never be washed in
hot soap-suds; they should first be
washed clean with cold water, then
rubbed dry with cloth wet in milk.
The same treatment applies to stove
or slate hearth.
TO CLEAN FURNITURE.-One pint
linseed oil, one pint vinegar, one-half
] pint alcohol.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01
How to Keep Brushes Clean.

The best way in which to clean hair
brushes is with spirits of ammonia, as
its effect is immediate. No rubbing is
required, and cold water can be used
just as successfully as warm. Take a
teaspoonful of ammonia to a quart of
water, dip the hair part of the brush
without wetting the ivory, and in q
moment the grease is removed; then
rinse in cold water, shake we'll, and
dry in the air, but not in the sun.
Soda and soap soften the bristles and
invariably turn the ivory yellow.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01
VOLUME XXI. NO. 40.
What Others Say.
fBdptiSt WeeklH.1

LEvITY ON LEAVING CHURCH.
An earnest writer says: II do not
warn you against cheerfulness. It is
pleasant to see the faces of Gods peo-
pie beaming with the secret refresh
ments of the spirit, or rejecting the
glories which shine between the cher
ubim. But this sacred rejoicing is no
more like levity than the clear diffus-
ed light of the morning is like the
flash of shaken tinsel. Cheerfulness
is the genial warmth of the Sun Of
Righteousness, levity is the cracking
of thorns under a pot. One is the
voice of rejoicing which becometh the
Tabernacles of the righteous; the 9TH
er is the laughter of fools, fit only for
the tents of wickedness. Cheerfulness
can mingle with solemnity just as the
clear heavens may he solemn with
night, yet cheerful with stars" This
distinction, so clearly and beautifully
drawn, is just, it holds true under all
circumstances, but never needs to be
more carefully recognized than at the
close of public worship. People
should not go from church services
with dismally pious looks, speaking to
one anotherin sepulchral tones. This
always savors of hypocrisy and is alb
horrent alike to God and man but we
hold that levity in the aisles and jest
ing in the vestibule and mirthful con-
versation on the way home is neither
decorous nor consistent.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01

A secular paper, writing of the theatre,
saws: "The theatre has been the great
demoralizer of our young women; nearly
all the pieces turn upon some rottenness,
deceit, or intrigue, The French pieces
are all of that class, and most Of the Eng
lish pieces are based on the French
These girls sit there by young men feast.
ing on unhealthy details, amours, and
exchanges of love, and they go to rich
late suppers. The final results are bes
seen in our divorce courts"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01

Rev. G. Pierce Watson, Winnsboro
charge, was present in worship at Con-
cord last Sabbath. He is taking few
davs of needed and deserved rest, having
been continuously at work every day
since the Annual Conference. He has
consented to preach, while resting, at Con-
cord next Sabbath-5th-in the morning
and at Leesyille at night.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01

At the recent municipal election in the
town of Leesville, S. c., b. n. Bodie was
reelected Intendant, and J.. S. Derrick,
John J. Shealoy, IT. NJ. Derrick and J. A.
Sease were reelected Wardens-all OF
them having served the year preceding
the election.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01
SCHOOLS.
Look to the End !

swell begun" may be "half done;",
But beginning Is not ending;
Great Successes ne'er are won
BY only wishing and intending.
"Start" is good, but "stay" is better,
start alone ne'er won n race;
"Start and stick" Is sure prize-getter,
"Staying power" takes foremost place.
Broad and deep lay the foundation,
But be sure you count the cost;
Or ryou'll rue, in deep reXation.
Treasure spent and labor lost. "
Bold beginner, mark his folly! D..
Soon his zeal and means diminish;
Rash, or craven, coward wholly,
He began, but could not finish!
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01

We sleep, but the loom of life never
stops; and the pattern which was
weaving when the sun went down, is
weaving when it comes up tomorrow.
He who is false to present duty breaks
a thread in the loom, and will find the
flaw when he may have forgotten its
cause.
o God how beautiful the thought.
How merciful the bless'd decree.
That Grace can e'er be found, when sought.
And naught shut out the soul from Thee.
The cell may cramp, the letters gall.
The flame may scorch, the rack may tear;
But torture. stake. or prison-wall,
Can be endured with faith and prayer
1t is better to preach the truth with
out practicing it, than to preach evil in
order to be consistent with ones evil
doings. But the best way of all is to
preach the truth, and to practice it
also. None of us ought to be satisfied
with any way short of the best.
The man who doesn't get as mad
and run as fast to get his own cow out
of his neighbours cornfield as he does
to get his neighbours cow out of his
own, hasn't got the answer to the gol-
den rule.
There is plenty of work to-day for
all kinds of people, if they were not
too proud TO do it. IT is difficult for
some people to believe that anything
is more honorable than idleness.
A quiet life often makes itself felt in
better ways than one that the world
sees and applauds: and some of the
noblest are never known till they end,
leaving void in many hearts.
What unthankfulness it is to forget
our consultations, and to look only
upon matters of grievance, to think SO
much upon two or three crosses rs to
forget a hundred blessings.
No man, for any considerable peri,
cd, can wear one face to himself ana
another to the multitude, wishout nm
ally getting bewildered as to which
may be. the truer.
Let us keep the feast not with old
leayen. neither with the leaven of
malice and wickedness, but with the
unleavened bread of sincerity and
truth.
Christ of all my hopes the ground,
Christ the spring Of all my 10y:
Having known 1t "Chrst to live"
Let me know 1t "gain to die"
Now the best way to kill a fellow is
with love, and then you don't have to
bury him, and his wife is not widow.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01

l. We may be quite sure that oul
will is likely to be crossed during the
day ; 50 let US prepare for it.
2. Every person in the mouse mas an
evil nature as well as ourselves, and
therefore we must not expect too
much.
3. Look upon each member of the
family as one for whom Christ died.
4. When inclined to give an angry
answer, let us lift up the heart in pray
er.
5. If from sickness, pain, or infirm-
ity, we feel irritable, let us keep very
strict watch over ourselves.
6. Observe when others are suffering
and drop q word Of kindness.
Z. Watch for little opportunities OF
pleasing, and put little annoyances
out of the way.
8. Take cheerful view of every
thing, and encourage hope.
8. Speak kindly to dependents and
servants, and praise them when you
cali.
10. In all little pleasures which may
occur, put self last.
II. Try for the soft answer that
turneth away wrath.
The certainty with which sin will
be visited with its punishment, and
the exercise of mercy are the two UNI
derlying principles of Gods dealings
with man. The Bible does not in any
of it's accounts of the results of sinful
ness, give the least ground for conclud-
ing that the sinner, who is unrepent-
ant, will in any way escape the just
punishment of his wrong doing.
No man can be really influential
who cannot listen as we'll as talk. Ex-
perience teaches that all people have
something in them worth attending to-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01

A little girl five years old, was told
by her teacher that the Mississippi
River was the Father of Waters.
"How is that ?" she queried, eff it is
the Father of Waters it ought to be
Mister-Sippi."
The talent of success is nothing
more than doing what you can do well
without thought of fame.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01

The meeting of the Holiness Associa-
ton at Newberry, s. G., is now running
through the second week with much in
tereSt.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01

John Ruskin, Boston Ruskin Club
"Our chief folly and sin on this side OF
the Atlantic is spending all our ma
tional subsistence in war machinery
and the only general advice for either
side of the Atlantic which I can bring
within the compass of letter is that
everybody should mind his own bust.
ness and leave the guardianship OF
wealth and life to Cod"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01
(Cumberldnd Presbyterian

No man has reached that state of
grace which he ought to reach as long
as he feels uncomfortable while the
contribution-box is passing. If you
find yourself complaining because
there are so many calls in the Church
for money, you have reason to fear
there is something wrong with your
religion. If giving is a painful thing
to you, you are not like Christ, for he
said, 1T is more blessed to give than
to receive"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01
[Chdrles F. Deems, D. d.

MAN HAS DOUBLE CAPACITY
The fact is, that man has in himself
the double capacity of believing on
proof, and of believing above proof.
Faith and Reason climb the ladder
hand in hand until the topmost stand
point of the visible is reached, and
there Reason pauses, but Faith goes
on-goes on and goes up, not treading
vacuity, but planting its footsteps on
the rungs of ladder invisible indeed,
but just as existent and as strong as
any thing which appears to sight.
Reason cries out to Faith, "Come
down: you are in the region of super
stitionm 1t is true there is something
which stands above our reason; there
is something the existence of which
can no more be made manifest to rea-
son than the non-luminous rays of
heat or the actinic solar rays can be
made perceptible to the optic nerve.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01
(PdciJfc Methodist.)

1t is proposed, on the invitation of
the trustees Of that celebrated meeting
house to erect in City Road Chapel,
London, memorial window to Bish-
op Simpson. All America loved and
honored Bishop Simpson, but it ought
to have occurred to these trustees that
he was the Bishop of only one Metho.
dism. Asbury's name was indeed
suggested, but it was rejected because
he was all Englishman. Why could
it not have been McKendree?
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01
Is. S, Ifnes.)

There is a great deal of spurious
modesty in the world which is simply
cowardice. When a man shrinks
from accepting well-merited honor,
that is modesty; when be skirks the
performance of recognized duty, that
is cowardice, though he may call it a
modest distrust of his own powers.
True modesty shrinks from the reward
of work we'll done; false modesty
shrinks from the work itself. This af-
fords an excellent test of true and
false modesty in ourselves and others.
Is it the honor that we shrink from ?
or is it the responsibility?
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1887-09-08
sumerIng % Be ssautifuI.

From their eIrlirsi youth the Bue.
mrse men tattoo their legs frun the
highs down 10 he knees with designs
b0th floral and animal. and pu icIurr
the upper part Il their brdies with
numerous round holes. into which they
rub vermilion powder. This operation
Is such that opium Is often admins
ter-d to deaden the agunizing pain
that Il causes. and | have heard thai
deaths frequently ensne from gan
grenous Inflammation. the result %
these puqeiureS But there is q
pruVerb which says III fat sOn6riI
pOur etrs BEL. and the admiration and
envy excited afierwanI my perhaps
compensate these victims II vanity Tor
the tOrtures 10 which the decoration
subiecied them The tatinoing is #.
iert-d BY the Juice Of plant which
stains the designs an inky black.
fOrfHigkiiy Rerisn.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1887-09-08

designing Is also done By women. who
IRE generally very well pail for their
labsrS The elephant tnsk 4 said to
represent the finest specimens uf ivory.
When the tusks are brought into the
workshop they are cut In shapes neo
essary for carving BY machinery. tho
objects designed beforehand. and q
suitable piece il cut out from the sheet
at one turn Of the wheel These pieces
arr then taken b the artists who de-
sign aud polish them until fashioned
ready for the store. The earVers sit Al
long desks facing windows Of hight.
sud they use salt and water beneath
the touch Of their fine tools. The I,ol-
ishing Is done upon wheels or buff
covered with Canton flannel and there
are Vats Of eolored liquid for : anime
iintS When the carving is finished
tue work Is exquisite In the exireme. e.
ltuOtlyH Eagle